A common research interest in medical, biological, and engineering research is determining whether certain independent variables are correlated with the survival or failure times. Standard statistical techniques cannot usually be applied for...
Dental students; Dental hygienists; Students; Dental education; Dental equipment & supplies; University of Louisville. School of Dentistry; University of Louisville--Students
A dentist and a dental hygienist stand over a patient reclining in a dental chair at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. A tray of dental instruments is visible between them and a dentist's light shines overhead.
Oneida Baptist Institute; Physicians; Clinics; Health care; Eye examinations; Vision disorders; Children
A group of children and adults watch doctors examine a patient at the Anderson Hall medical clinic. The clinic was primarily focused on identifying and treating patients with trachoma, a contagious eye disease. A bungalow hospital was opened on the...
Medical records--Data processing; Data mining; Databases--Design
A major problem with integrating information from multiple databases is that the same data objects can exist in inconsistent data formats across databases and a variety of attribute variations, making it difficult to identify matching objects using...
Coronary heart disease--Treatment--Cost effectiveness; Angioplasty; Medical laws and legislation--Kentucky
A myocardial infarction (MI) occurs when blood supply to the heart is cut off by a blockage in one of the coronary arteries. Most hospitals treat a patient with thrombolysis or a percutaneous coronary intervention (PC I). The latter has been...
A patient lies in a hospital bed surrounded by other men and a nurse while a woman hands out Christmas presents. Address: Nichols VA Hospital, Manslick Road at Conn Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Emergency medicine--Diagnosis; Emergency medical services
A retrospective study involving the secondary analysis of public health surveillance records was undertaken to characterize the reliability and validity of an EMS dispatch data-based scheme for assigning emergency patients to surveillance syndromes...
Dental students; Dental education; Dental hygienists; Dentistry; Students; Radiographs; University of Louisville. School of Dentistry; University of Louisville--Students
A student dentist works on a patient's teeth in a dental station at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. A dental hygienist rinses the patient's mouth with water. A light and other dental equipment are visible. X-rays of another...
Medical care--Decision making; Decision making--Simulation methods
A variety of methodologies have been employed for decision making related to the treatment of diseases/injury. Decision trees are a functional way in which to examine problems under uncertainty by providing a method to analyze decisions under risk...
Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries--Treatment; Physical therapy
Activity-based rehabilitation in the form of overground or body weight-supported treadmill (BWST) locomotor step training has become the most widely accepted therapy translated from preclinical animal research to spinal cord injury (SCI) patients....
Advancements in medical therapy have augmented resources available to
physicians to treat disease and, because of this, spending on prescription drugs
has doubled in the past decade. Increasingly, clinical trials are demonstrating the
benefits of...
Health care facilities; Clinics; Sick persons; Medical equipment & supplies
African-American woman stands in front of an X-ray machine, in a room with concrete walls. A nurse stands behind her. In the back of the room, a woman stands in front of another piece of equipment. An African-American woman and man stand next to...
Aims. The primary aim of this study was to compare esthetic outcomes for the Nobel Replace Standard implant vs. the Nobel Perfect Scalloped implant as determined by hard and soft tissue measurements and objective and subjective esthetic indices....
Aims. The primary aims of this randomized, controlled, blinded clinical trial were to compare the hard and soft tissue response following either a connective tissue (CT) or acellular dermal matrix (ADM) graft placed simultaneously with a...
Aims. The primary aims of this randomized, controlled, blinded clinical trial were to
compare the hard and soft tissue response following either a connective tissue (CT) or
acellular dermal matrix (ADM) graft placed...
Background: Emerging circulatory support devices that operate in counterpulsation to the native heart require synchronized timing of device ejection and filling on a beat-to-beat basis with the native heart using a patient's ECG. Surface leads are...
Cancer accounts for nearly one-quarter of deaths in the United States, exceeded only by heart diseases. Despite the development of various strategies to treat cancer, it remains one of the most deadly diseases worldwide due to the limited effects...
Circulating nucleated cell populations found in whole blood, including both white blood cells (leukocytes) and endothelial cells, provide an ideal platform for studies seeking to understand the disease processes for development of drugs and...
Crossover design is a type of longitudinal study with each subject receiving different treatments in different time periods. It has been used frequently in the pharmaceutical industry and other medical fields to investigate the safety and efficacy...
